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In the example 19, it can be seen that The White House refers to President or his staff did it. The White House here does not mean a building that has white
color. It shows that The White House has closely to President or his staff but actually, it is not part of its whole.
2.5 Related Studies
Perangin-angin 2008 in his thesis “The Analysis of Figurative Expressions in the Holy Bible: Hebrew” found 46 data. They are metaphor with 20
cases, hyperbole with 9 cases, simile with 5 cases, synecdoche with 3 cases, irony with 7 cases, and personification with 5 cases. This thesis gives me contribution
about how to analyze the problem in my thesis. Saleh 2008 in his thesis, “A Semantic Analysis of Figurative Expressions in
Ernest Hemingway’s The Old Man and The Sea”. In his thesis, he analyzes figurative expressions that exist in “The Old Man and The Sea’s novel”. He found 67 data.
They are metaphor 8 cases, simile 27 cases, personification 20 cases, hyperbole with 4 cases, synecdoche with 7 cases and oxymoron with 1 case. This thesis uses
descriptive qualitative and quantitavive method, which has similirities with my thesis and helps me how to analyse the problem.
Sinulingga 2007 in her thesis “The Semantic Analysis of Non Literal Meaning in the Selected Songs Lyrics of Evanescene” found that there are 63 cases
of non literal meaning in that songs. They are; hyperbole with 48 cases, personification with 12 cases, simile with 2 cases, synecdhoche with 1 case. This
thesis also help me to analyse the problem in my thesis.
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Finally, the semantics theory will be used to analize all the data in this thesis is Kennedy’s theory.
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BAB III RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
3.1 Research Method
In writing this thesis, the writer uses library research. Zed 2004:1 says: “Riset pustaka sekaligus memanfaatkan perpustakaan untuk memperoleh data
penelitiannya. Tegasnya riset pustaka membatasi kegiatannya hanya pada bahan- bahan koleksi perpustakaan saja tanpa memerlukan riset lapangan” library
research is using the library to get the data research. Clearly, library research limit their activity on library collection only without needs field research.
3.2 Data Collecting Method
